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This chapter presents the state-of-the-art entrepreneurship education (EE) in Finland through lenses applied in this volume.
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The developments were derived from the study of Heinonen, J., & Hytti, U. (2016). Entrepreneurship mission and content in Finnish policy programmes. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 23(1), 149–162.
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Ministry of Education and Culture (2017) accessed at https://minedu.fi/documents/1410845/4363643/Entrepreneurship-for-Education-Guidelines.pdf/ad2a7ecc-ae1b-4460-8fc6-d394e9a0a23a/Entrepreneurship-for-Education-Guidelines.pdf.
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Both of the authors have been involved in developing the University of Turku (UTU) as an “entrepreneurial university.” The first author chaired the initial entrepreneurship strategy in 2015, the outcome of which was UTU’s Entrepreneurial University Strategy. In addition, descriptions of the practices are based on the confidential self-evaluation report of the university prepared for the Entrepreneurial University Accreditation, which the university received in 2022.
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Areas to be covered according to the framework are: (1) leadership and governance, (2) organizational capacity, people, and incentives, (3) entrepreneurship development through teaching and learning, (4) pathways for entrepreneurs (5) university’s business/external relationships for knowledge exchange, and (6) the entrepreneurial university as an international institution (OECD and European Commission, 2012).
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Web-Pages (Accessed in August/September 2021)
Universities in Finland:
Aalto University, https://www.aalto.fi/en
University of Helsinki, https://www.helsinki.fi/en
University of Eastern Finland, https://www.uef.fi/en
University of Jyväskylä, https://www.jyu.fi/en
University of Lapland, https://www.ulapland.fi/en
Lappeenranta University of Technology, https://www.lut.fi/web/en/
University of Oulu, https://www.oulu.fi/en
Hanken School of Economics, https://www.hanken.fi/en
University of Arts, https://www.uniarts.fi/en/
Tampere University, https://www.tuni.fi/en/about-us/tampere-university
University of Turku, https://www.utu.fi/en
University of Vaasa, https://www.uwasa.fi/en
Åbo Akademi University, https://www.abo.fi/en/
Student-led entrepreneurship societies mentioned:
AaltoES, https://www.aaltoes.com/
KuopioES, https://www.facebook.com/KuopioES
JoES, https://joensuues.fi/
LaplandES, https://www.laplandes.fi
LUTES, https://lutes.fi/
OuluES, https://oulues.com/
HankenES, https://www.hankenes.org/
TampereES, https://www.facebook.com/TampereES/
Boost-Turku, https://boostturku.com
Other organisations mentioned:
VaasaES, https://www.ves.fi/
Federation of Finnish Enterprises, https://www.yrittajat.fi/en
Junior Achievement Finland, https://nuoriyrittajyys.fi/en/info/
SparkUp, http://www.sparkup.fi/en
TAT, https://www.tat.fi/
Turku Science Park Ltd https://turkubusinessregion.com/en/
YES Network, https://yesverkosto.fi/en
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The first author would like to acknowledge financial support provided by the NordForskNCoE program ‘NordAqua’ (#82845).
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Heinonen, J., Ilonen, S. (2023). Entrepreneurship Education in Finland. In: Xu, X. (eds) Comparative Entrepreneurship Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1835-5_5
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